Name
Frederick Herbert Beney
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/06/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
40427
Northamptonshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BERLIN SOUTH-WESTERN CEMETERY
I. G. 9.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St James’ Church Memorial, Thorley
Working Men’s Club / Village Hall, Memorial, Thorley
Pre War
Son of Elizabeth Beney, recorded after his death at 38, Grenard Rd., Peckham, London, and the late Frederick Simden Beney. Before joining the Army Frederick was employed as an agricultural labourer by Mr. John Lawrence at Latchmore Hall. His home address was in Thorley Street.
Wartime Service
Frederick was called up January 1917 as Private 35609 in 3rd Batt. Essex Regiment. He went to France in 1917 and was transferred to the 6th Batt. Northampton Regiment. He was taken prisoner on April 5th, 1918 during the Great German Offensive and died of pneumonia in the Prisoner of War Camp at Stendal in Germany on June 25th 1918.
Additional Information
www.friends-stjames.org/Archives.htm
Acknowledgments
John E. I. Procter (Rector of Thorley), Bill Hardy, Philip Hargrave - www.friends-stjames.org/Archives.htm, Jonty Wild
